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    I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh

    Alyn Shipton

    Creator of favorite tunes such as I’m in the Mood for Love and On the Sunny Side of the Street , Jimmy McHugh was a one-man history of twentieth-century popular…

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    Handful of Keys: Conversations with 30 Jazz Pianists

    Alyn Shipton

    First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Out of the Long Dark: The Life of Ian Carr

    Alyn Shipton

    A biography of Ian Carr, pioneer bebop player and founding father of jazz rock in the UK. This work also draws a picture of Ian Carr’s home region, the North-East…

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    Fats Waller

    Alyn Shipton

    In this biography of Waller, Alyn Shipton re-examines his career, arguing that his talents as a songwriter, show composer and brilliant recording and broadcasting artist have not been appreciated. A…

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    Jazz Makers

    Alyn Shipton

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    Groovin’ High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie

    Alyn Shipton

    Dizzy Gillespie was, like Louis Armstrong, an entertainer as well as a jazz musician. And, also like Armstrong, he was an influential figure in jazz history. He, together with Charlie…

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    The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

    Alyn Shipton

    The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a…

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    The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

    Alyn Shipton

    The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a…

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    On Jazz: A Personal Journey

    Alyn Shipton

    Brim-full of personal reminiscence and zesty anecdote, On Jazz is an affectionate portrait of the personalities behind the music. It takes us into clubs, dancehalls, and theatres, up close to…

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    Hi-de-ho: Life of Cab Calloway

    Alyn Shipton (Jazz Critic)

    With his catchphrase Hi-de-ho and his dramatic singing and dancing, Cab Calloway became the highest-earning African American bandleader of the 1930s. This book traces his remarkable career, his vocal innovations…

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    Hi-de-ho: The Life of Cab Calloway

    Alyn Shipton (Jazz Critic)

    With his catchphrase Hi-de-ho and his dramatic singing and dancing, Cab Calloway became the highest-earning African American bandleader of the 1930s. This book traces his remarkable career, his vocal innovations…

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    Lullaby of Birdland: The Autobiography of George Shearing

    George Shearing,Alyn Shipton

    Pianist George Shearing, a European jazz musician who in 1947 emigrated to the US and started his landmark series of records with his quintet as well as performing classical pieces…

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    Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville

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    This is a selection of jazz guitarist, banjoist, singer and composer, Danny Barker’s writings (beginning with a long portrait of Buddy Bolden, the first man of jazz ) drawn from…

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    Jazz Me Blues: The Autobiography of Chris Barber

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    Autobiography of jazz trombonist Chris Barber whose Barber band achieved chart success on both sides of the Atlantic, and from the middle to late 1950s it was the most popular…

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    Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter

    Alyn Shipton (Jazz critic, Jazz critic, Times (London))

    In this first ever full-length biography of Harry Nilsson, author Alyn Shipton traces the musician’s life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence, and charts his gradual move…

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    Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter

    Alyn Shipton (Jazz critic, Jazz critic, Times (London))

    In this first ever full-length biography of Harry Nilsson, author Alyn Shipton traces the musician’s life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence, and charts his gradual move…

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    Do You Want to Know a Secret?: The Autobiography of Billy J. Kramer

    Billy J. Kramer,Alyn Shipton

    When Billy J. Kramer’s Do You Want To Know A Secret? by Lennon and McCartney topped the charts in 1963, he was the first singer in the world to have…

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    Do You Want to Know a Secret?

    Billy J. Kramer, Alyn Shipton

    In this autobiography Billy J. Kramer (born William Ashton) tells his rags to riches story, from his working class childhood in Liverpool, via a British Rail engineering apprenticeship in the…

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    Art of Jazz: A Visual History

    Alyn Shipton,John Edward Hasse

    An illustrated exploration of how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art –

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